Date:

Attendees: Steven, Huda, Jason, Simeon, Greg, Lynette

Regrets: 

Discovery (WP3)

  • https://github.com/LD4P/discovery/projects/2 for issues etc. 
  • Draft of a discovery plan: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zKYW7FQVVNvyd0XjjW0qWznX9PC3jbmOE6Kz_yygPjs/edit?usp=sharing
  • Research: how to go from knowledge graph to an index
  • DASH! (Displaying Authorities Seamlessly Here)
  • BANG! (Bibliographic Aspects Newly GUI'd)
    • Jamboard link
    • Expect to include Works. Need to do something beyond what we already have live from the OCLC concordance data.
    • 2022-01-28
      • Huda extending data source writeup and will spend a couple of days building a tool to characterize/explore data in DAVE
      • What past research is there on works and what is useful to users? 
        • K Coyle and K Godby work from a few years ago suggested ways to find particular expressions (bf: works) useful, works (bf: hubs / opera) help users get there
        • Steven to check past D&A user studies - No institutional memory or documentation of tests for "Other forms of this work"
    • 2022-02-11
      • Huda has works on HTML/Javascript graph explorer code and showed demo. Steven notes how this will be useful to explore datasets. Where to take this work? Perhaps discuss with Dave based on the set of queries used, and to see whether this can run over his Lucene/ES index for more responsive.
      • Huda working to get counts of items under the same LC Hub. Steven and Huda will discuss the data further
      • For past research on works and usefulness to users, Huda will also revisit FRBR/BIBFRAME + user research references previously suggested for KULA paper
  • DAG Calls
    • 2022-02-11 
      • Calls next Tuesday for DAG, and the following for WAG focusing on DASH! production and experimental work

Linked-Data Authority Support (WP2)

  • Qa Sinopia Collaboration
    • 2022-02-04 
      • Met this week and covered 3 topics:
        • pagination stopped working in Sinopia probably due to a bug fix in the cache system.  Previously, the number returned would be different than the total number which would trigger pagination to show, but the number returned was greater than the number requested.  This bug was fixed.  A second bug has the number returned equal to the number requested which makes it look like you have all the results.  Dave has a planned fix.
        • Standards committee may be making vocab requests, but don't expect many.  Definitely requesting homosaurus.
        • Renamed existing ISNI auth to ISNI_LD4L_WRAPPED.  Used the existing name, ISNI_LD4L_CACHE for the new cached RDF download.  These updates are in production.
    • 2022-02-11 
      • No meeting this week.
      • Jim Hahn asked "if an NAR (name authority record, ref. to LCNAF) is updated, when do we expect to see that change populated through QA?"  My response was that we currently take a full dump periodically, but it is not on a predictable schedule.  Not the best answer.  As auths adopt the working group recommendations, it sets the stage for Dave to use incremental updates on a regular basis (e.g. nightly).
      • Current priorities include 
        • fix of total_number_found to make pagination work to get pagination working again in Sinopia
        • add homosaurus authority
        • Update pagination in QA linked data module to use json-api as output
  • Best Practices for Authoritative Data working group (focus on Change Management) 
    • 2022-02-04
      • There was discussion in Slack about the usage of Add vs. Create.  I believe we have settled on Create indicating the entity is brand new and Add indicating that the entity wasn't available and now it is (e.g. permission change, temporary removal reinstated, etc.)  I expect Remove and Delete to follow a similar pattern.
    • 2022-02-11
      • Working on external documentation for EMM Change Document API.  This was running just on my machine, but it is now available at ld4.github.io, which will make it easier for the working group to review.  I am incorporating feedback from the last working group meeting. 
      • Coming soon: Simple working examples at ld4.github.io.  Dave plans to work on connecting to LCNAF's feed as a proof of concept.
  • Containerization
    • 2022-02-11 
      • Chile and Antarctica, yay!
      • Delivered CloudFormation templates to Stanford, they had only partial success, got stuck and then moved to other work. Next work cycle much later in the year
      • Containerized version of lookup quite stable but looking on changes for customization etc.. Lynette feels good about build and deploy workflow. Need to finish off customization before moving to production
        • Lynette will look at how it would be to move the current version live, before the customization is complete
      • Would like to get started on containerizing Dave's cache – need to discuss with Dave. Plan to set up call with Dave to discuss how to containerize the index

Other Topics

  • Github branch renaming
    • See Renaming of LD4P Repositories – cul/blacklight-cornell now uses main and master has been deleted
    • Expect to be able switch this in LD4P as part of D&A work
    • 1/28: Fetched upstream and deleted master branch in LD4P blacklight-cornell fork.
  • Sinolio - Sinopia-FOLIO
    • 2021-12-17 - Work Cycle finished, sprint video out
  • OCLC Linked Data / Entities Advisory Group
    • 2021-12-10 OCLC presented at bigheads meeting this week, in testing
  • PCC 
    • 2021-01-21 Definitions and non-RDA final report to POCO (hopefully) to be submitted next week
    • 2022-01-14 Nothing new to report.
  • Authorities in FOLIO
    • 2022-01-14 Working on "deletes" workflow (actually deprecation with replacement process for references). Current workflow uses browse in Blacklight and benefits from links into FOLIO
    • 2022-01-29 Making good progress, in part because of new Slack channel. Doing user acceptance tests for FOLIO Authorities module
  • Upcoming presentations: Discussion on knowledge panels and Cornell Wikidata integration1/24 ARLIS/NA x Wikidata, and catalog form and function IG presentation March 11, 3-4pm (hope to also get Steven (smile))

Upcoming meetings/presentations

Next Meeting(s), anyone out?:

2022-02-18 - everybody about

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